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1 posted on 12/17/2023 7:22:36 PM PST by grundle
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Well. at least we know that corrupt politicians and their corrupt contractor buddies are making some serious vig off this boondoggle...


2 posted on 12/17/2023 7:28:59 PM PST by kiryandil (The Biden: "Zelensky, we need to sit down and have a talk.")
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Housing the homeless should not be the goal. The truth is most of them would just destroy the properties. The goal should be helping first time home buyers who have ties to the community and are being priced out of LA.


3 posted on 12/17/2023 7:30:04 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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Meanwhile, in Texas, a 300 unit mixed use community with commercial on the ground floor and lovely balconied apartments took less than three years from acquisition, planning and zoning, building, to leasing.


4 posted on 12/17/2023 7:31:46 PM PST by TheWriterTX (🇺🇸✝️🙏🇮🇱)
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The city wants to build 450,000 new units of housing by 2029,


think about it.


5 posted on 12/17/2023 7:34:33 PM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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The Leftists always complain loudly and continually about the lack of affordable housing.

In the immortal word of Walt Kelly’s character Pogo, We have met the enemy, and he is us.


6 posted on 12/17/2023 7:44:54 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Well, I’m not sure I’d want the development in my neighborhood. May have been some NIMBY going on.


7 posted on 12/17/2023 8:03:26 PM PST by PAR35
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Democrats. That’s why. Democrats. Get rid of democrats, and prosperity follows.


8 posted on 12/17/2023 8:05:44 PM PST by vpintheak (Pinko misanthrope)
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11 posted on 12/17/2023 8:19:53 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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How is the choo choo train running? I mean..well...it’s the thought.


13 posted on 12/17/2023 8:27:31 PM PST by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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Government housing policy changed from being construction based to being voucher based circa 1970. Housing construction is best left to experienced professionals.

It needs to be recognized that not everyone can live in LA. If they could, few people would live in Utica, NY or Duluth, MN.


14 posted on 12/17/2023 8:37:13 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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But even all of this regulation were to be eliminated:
1) build cheap houses for crackheads
2) Give crackheads more cash money for crack
3) Anyone want to guess what incentivizing crackheads in this fashion is going to do vis-a-vis the number of crackheads?

This isn’t even Econ 101. It is common sense 101 for 8th graders.


15 posted on 12/17/2023 8:42:25 PM PST by zoomie92 (Reality check)
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But even all of this regulation were to be eliminated:
1) build cheap houses for crackheads
2) Give crackheads more cash money for crack
3) Anyone want to guess what incentivizing crackheads in this fashion is going to do vis-a-vis the number of crackheads?

This isn’t even Econ 101. It is common sense 101 for 8th graders.


16 posted on 12/17/2023 8:42:38 PM PST by zoomie92 (Reality check)
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Overall, the homeless want it that way.

Building them shelter is a fool’s errand.

Someone’s pockets are clearly getting very well padded.


18 posted on 12/17/2023 10:09:03 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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I'm not a huge Ayn Rand fan but man, she sure did get some things right. In America there's an exponentially growing class of well-fed parasites We The People inadvertently pay to throw stones in our paths, to make our lives more miserable than they have to be, to harass us, persecute us, limit us and destroy initiative in those who actually produce meaningful things.

This cannot go on much longer.

19 posted on 12/18/2023 1:19:20 AM PST by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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That’s not unusual.. road construction here for a 5 mile stretch is guaranteed income for life. The only thing that seems to change is where they put the orange cones and barrels. I’d be farther ahead with a shovel and wheelbarrow on a 4 day work week.


22 posted on 12/18/2023 4:17:24 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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You can have Open Borders, or you can have Affordable Housing.

You cannot have both.


23 posted on 12/18/2023 5:00:29 AM PST by MMusson
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I laugh every time I see articles about creating affordable housing in Los Angeles, or anywhere in California. It will NEVER happen.

It took me 3 1/2 years to go through the crap the Building Department mandates and it cost over $300,000. Just to build a 3 bdrm 2 bath house on my property. I will retire in a year and leave this godforsaken State I grew up in and sell everything I have here.


25 posted on 12/18/2023 5:29:46 AM PST by eyeamok
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The city wants to build 450,000 new units of housing by 2029

Think brown outs are bad now wait until then free flash lights to all.


28 posted on 12/18/2023 7:14:35 AM PST by Vaduz (....)
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